international export performance at the firm level. To this end, we use Belgian firm-level data for the period 1999-2010 to analyze … significant negative effect of unit labor costs on export performance of firms with an estimated elasticity of the intensive … costs reduce the probability of starting to export for non-exporters and increase the probability of exporters stopping …

product codes over time results in less product adding and dropping at continuing firms in the Belgian export and production …

This paper studies how firm-level export performance is affected by Real Exchange Rate (RER) volatility and … investigates whether this effect depends on existing financial constraints. Our empirical analysis relies on export data for more … this negative impact, especially on the intensive margin of export. These results provide micro-founded evidence suggesting …

evidence in favour of self-selection of more productive firms into export markets, but nearly no evidence in favour of the …

France has seen a marked deterioration in its export performance in the last 10 years or so. Previous empirical … research pointed out that weak export performance was due to i) vigorous domestic demand; ii) lower mark-ups due to head …-to-head competition with Germany; iii) low non-price competitiveness of French export goods; iv) offshoring of entire production processes …

We develop a model of international trade with two dimensions of firm heterogeneity and export quality constraints that … exporter premia cannot be rationalized through these models as they imply no variation in export status once size is controlled … strong support for the model. We also investigate the sources of export quality constraints using firm-level trade shipment …